LETTER 1: ESGE JØRGENSEN BILLE TO TYCHO BRAHE, 11 NOVEMBER (NEW STYLE) 1599

Dear Tycho Brahe, my dear brother,

Now and always, I send you my most friendly greetings in the name of Our Lord. I send you my most friendly thanks for all the goodness you have done for me, which you will always find me willing to repay with any service I can render to your honor and welfare.

Dear brother, your letter came into my hands here in Copenhagen through your son, Tyge, and in it you let me know about the good circumstances you have come into at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, which I (as well as many of your good friends, who asked about you at this Diet of the Nobility) was most pleased to hear. May God continue to give you good fortune.

Concerning the fifty dalers that you asked me to pay to Christian Longomontanus, your son Tyge will undoubtedly tell you about that, because I note that he is coming with that money, otherwise he would certainly have gotten it [from me], regardless of the circumstances.

Concerning your instruments, I have given your son my thoughts and advice on what I consider to be the best way to get them out, which would be by way of Lübeck.